The line-up of speakers at the festival includes Patricia Grace, J. P. Pomare, Monty Soutar and Hinemoa Elder among many others.

New Zealand's parliament was suspended for a short period on Thursday when people in the public gallery broke into a haka, a traditional Maori dance, after the newest member of parliament for the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Māori flag is seen here while being displayed during a soccer match in 2023. (AP) Credit: The ...

Te Kopapa Reo Maori board members were presented with their new three-year warrants by the Minister of Tauranga Vananga, George (Maggie) Angene on Friday. The new committee members are Ngavaevae ...

Global sportswear brand Hoka is facing criticism for failing to acknowledge the Maori origins of its name, despite using Maori words in its branding. Originally named Hoka One One, meaning "to fly ...

Misleading: The evaluation didn’t look at the program’s impact on student progress and achievement. AAP FACTCHECK – A claim by a New Zealand government minister that an evaluation of a Maori language ...

A heated war of words has broken out over whether Maori names should be given to numerous public places in the local community as well as bus stations that are part of the Eastern Busway project. As ...

The removal of basic Maori phrases — kia ora, meaning “hello” and Aotearoa, the Maori name for New Zealand — from a lunar new year invitation to an Australian official was not a snub of the indigenous ...

The removal of basic Maori phrases meaning “hello” and “New Zealand” from a Maori lunar new year invitation to an Australian official was not a snub of the indigenous language by New Zealand’s ...

Politicians typically swat away questions about their appearance, but Te Pati Maori has wielded fashion as a political weapon. By Serena Solomon Reporting from Auckland, New Zealand The outfit is ...

“Well it is stronger in me, and I’ve got a whole lot of genetics in me,” Waititi responds lightly, ­before apparently realising how serious this ­accusation is. “How can it be racist when you’re ...

Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders can recognise more than 1000 te reo Māori words or part-words, but only understand meanings of about 70, a new University of Canterbury study shows. Co-author ...